I work with data in my daily life and program on the side. The latter is intellectually challenging, interesting and – highly importantly – keeps me sane in the course of my regular work. Sometimes I learn new things I wish to easily access for review, and that’s where this website comes in handy.

Nil Labore is a corruption of Nil Sine Labore (“Nothing Without Labour”), which is the motto of a previous school of mine. We took pride in slacking off, and therefore often joked that our motto should’ve been “No Labour” (although I’m not sure if the inflection is correct, it being Latin and all). Programming is basically getting the computer to do things that one can’t be bothered to do, hence I thought it was apt.

Ian